On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 78, 8 March 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

THE PROVENCE DISASTER. \ —————— HEROIC DISCIPLINE, I ■ JUnithd Pkbm Association } Paris, March 7. M. Bokanowski, a French Deputy, who was a survivor from the Provence disaster, narrates that a battalion of the Third Colonial Infantry were aboard. There was no lamentation or panic, thougli the ship was sinking rapidly and the boilers were exploding. Captain Vescd remained on the bridge, calmly giving orders, and finally cried, “Adieu, Mes Enfants!” The men clustered on the fore deck and replied, “Vive la ;Franee!” Then the Provence took a sudden and final plunge. A British patrol and a French torpedoev picked up the survivors aftei they had been eighteen hours in the ,water. Many died or went mad before | the rescuers arrived. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK. i March 6. The Glasgow steamer Masunda has been sunk. All the crew were saved. i " LOOKING FOR FIGHTI I I TWENTY GERMAN WARSHIPS IN THE NORTH SEA! (Received 10.5 a.m.) , London. March 7. Statements circulated in. Holland affirm that over twenty German warships were observed in the North Sea yesterday. HUNS’ PIRATICAL METHODS. • AN OFFICER’S EXPERIENCE. (Received 10.0 a.m.) Capetown, March 7. Mr Word ridge, chief officer of the Clan MacFarlane, relates that when, he was chief officer of the Clan MacLeod, she surrendered, when within range of a quarter of a mile of the submarine which continued firing. The ClanMacLeod launched the boats, and two were hit by shells and a dozen men killed. The submarine’s captain said: “We arc not barbarians, or we [would fire on you in the boats. Our orders are to kill you all.” | Mr Wordridge contrasts this action with the chivalry of the Emden. which captured him off Colombo on October, 1914.